Description: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Thousand Acres" comes the memoirs of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, who marries an abolitionist from New England and settles in Kansas in 1855. When her husband is murdered, Lidie cuts off her hair and vanishes into Missouri to find his killers--a spy in slave territory, a woman in a brutally male world, a witness to the conflict from the other side, stripped of her illusions, relinquishing the high-minded certainties of her century for the dark ambiguities of our own time. April 1998 publication date.

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